Getting his last licks in: Two weeks before John Bolton’s departure was announced, his U.N. team tried to block an effort to commemorate the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

You want another sign that an investigation bonanza is coming with the new Congress?

House Democrats are seeking to revive a military oversight panel that the GOP ditched back in 1995.

Your FL-13 update: the state’s test runs on electronic voting machines have finished up without a smoking gun. So we’re on to the next round.

Bolton’s next act, according to TPMCafe’s Scott Paul: “write a book, and hit the speaking circuit to blast the Bush Administration for abandoning ultra-conservative foreign policy principles.”

Back before the election, Andrew Sullivan said the 2006 midterm was shaping up not so much as an election as a collective national intervention. But do you get the sense now that it was a failed one?

I don’t mean that in the sense that it was a failed election or that the Democrats have fallen short in any way. I mean more specifically about the president.

I go around the web and I see headlines like, Will President Listen to What James Baker Says?

Then there’s Stephen Hadley saying, Believe Me, the President Knows Something Has to Change.

It’s like hearing from relatives and friends that so and so knows he has to make a change. But will he?

And this is the guy running the country?

The White House is saying that Bolton’s re-nomination died because of a “Democrat filibuster”. But didn’t he tank because Republican Linc Chafee said ‘no’?

We hear word there may be more senior-level changes at the Pentagon. More when we know more.

Sen. Sununu (R-NH) to biz leaders: Stop whining about health care costs.

John Edwards to appear at Southern California church in danger of losing its tax exempt status over anti-war sermon.

Vanity Fair just posted its lengthy expose on the Mark Foley scandal. TPMmuckraker gives you the choicest cuts.